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The 5 Levels of NFL Draft Hell

January 10, 2021 By Laura Chatellier, FSU '23

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“The language of sports is full of jargon used to signal inclusion. Being in on the dialect indicates expertise — being someone who lives in and understands traditions. Jargon can also act as a replacement for original thought and provides a way to anesthetize the speaker and their audience from the human realities and consequences of sports. The conversation around the NFL Draft demonstrates this power of jargon in shaping the idea of football and its athletes: We’ve begun looking at players and their bodies through the cliches and expressions they are confined to.

“Terms like ‘elite,’ ‘draft stock,’ and ‘big board’ are used by experts and fans to signal belonging. Players are reduced to ambiguous descriptors, like ‘gunslinger’ and ‘winner.’ More troublesome, this path of reduction and obscurement leads to whitewashing a history of domestic violence as ‘character concerns,’ homosexuality dismissed as a ‘distraction,’ and black athletes portrayed as monsters and brutes. ‘Freak’ and ‘machine’ are treated as endearing descriptions, and the suspicion that a black quarterback can’t ‘read a defense’ tries to hide the racist idea that black people are not as smart as their white counterparts.

“This corrupted language leads to corrupted thinking. The banality of most jargon, in making sure to hide reality behind doublespeak, inevitably escalates to lightly coded bigotry. Jargon lets old prejudices and racist tropes run amok, disguised as sporting truths. To help untangle these euphemisms, we created a glossary to decode NFL evaluations, separated by levels of nefariousness that even Dante would appreciate. And in that spirit, let us take you on a journey …” [. . .]    –Zito Madu & Charles Mcdonald, Sbnation, 2018

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Abandon All Hope, Circles of Hell, Football, United States

Weather in Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 2021

January 3, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

CARROT Weather app for iOS

Categories: Digital Media, Places
Tagged with: 2021, Abandon All Hope, Amsterdam, Apps, Gates of Hell, Inferno, Netherlands, Weather

Ahayweh Gate – Descent II

October 27, 2020 By lsanchez

“Ahayweh Gate, the first level, is named for the phrase ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here’ from Dante’s Divine Comedy.”    —ClassicReload, January 7, 2016

Learn more about Parallax Software’s 1996 video game Dark Descent II here.

Categories: Consumer Goods, Digital Media
Tagged with: 1996, Abandon All Hope, Gates of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Video Games

“WWE Extreme Rules 2020: 5 Important Details You Probably Missed From the Wyatt Swamp Fight”

October 25, 2020 By lsanchez

“When Braun Strowman arrived at the Swamp, there was a sign that read ‘Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here’ which could be a hint about the Firefly Fun House.”    –Phillipa Marie, Sportskeeda, July 20, 2020

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Abandon All Hope, Gates of Hell, Inferno, Sports, Television, Wrestling, WWE

CIX, Hello Chapter 3: Hello, Strange Time (2020)

October 24, 2020 By Professor Arielle Saiber

See the video teaser trailer here 

Contributed by Justin Meckes

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Abandon All Hope, Dark Wood, K-Pop, Lasciate ogne speranza, Nel Mezzo del Cammin, Selva oscura, South Korea

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